Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

Species spatial distributions are the result of population demography, behavioral traits, and
species interactions in spatially heterogeneous environmental conditions. Hence the …

River networks are hierarchical dendritic habitats embedded within the terrestrial landscape,
with varying connectivity between sites depending on their positions along the network. This …

Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical
Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical …

The book describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being
used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. These …

Tests of significance of the individual canonical axes in redundancy analysis allow
researchers to determine which of the axes represent variation that can be distinguished …

The Mantel test is widely used to test the linear or monotonic independence of the elements
in two distance matrices. It is one of the few appropriate tests when the hypothesis under …

Recently, community ecologists are focusing on the relative importance of local
environmental factors and proxies to dispersal limitation to explain spatial variation in …

Objectives The relevance of spatial composition in the microbial changes associated with
UC is unclear. We coupled luminal brush samples, mucosal biopsies and laser capture …

Deciphering significant sedimentological processes from a set of sediment samples is an
important step in reconstructing environmental changes. One approach going beyond …